Too much Foam Rolling and Stretching?

My chiropractor has recommended that I use the stick and the foam roller in addition to stretching my ITB (mine hurts up by my hip).  But, I'm not to rub or massage it more than every other day, as it can make it more inflamed. He really stressed that point.

I can stretch everyday, even several times a day, provided my muscles are warm from either exercise or a hot shower/bath.

if your foam roller is pretty hard and your doing 2x serious foam roller session a day for a few weeks you could easily develop a soreness from it for sure.  I don't have a foam roller, but rather one of the "roller balls" (for lack of a better word, I can't recall the name/brand), where you can pump it up and make it harder or softer, I find it softer to handle than a foam roller, and still seems to do the trick.   Lay off the roller for a bit.  Do you still have any pain when running at all?

Dealing with an IT band issue myself, did some stretches and exercises, but what really helped the most, after the inflammation went down, was strength training on my legs: squats, lunges and some of the machines in the gym, as well as core training. 

Unfortunately these things take a while to heal. So, I do think you're probably overdoing the stretching by doing it everyday as I assume you're not running every day (IMHO, i am just forumite, and not a pt). I suggest working in some strength in to address the muscle issue.

When I had ITBS stretching and massage were good but my PT also gave me some strength exercises which helped alot too. Targetting those weak areas. The stretches were great but i didn't do them everyday and I don't recall the instruction from my PT were to do it every day. I practised yoga twice a week.  I eased back into mileage slowly (it was really really hard to be patient),  I monitored the pain and built the stretching in for post run only - I built back up to four days a week.

Best of luck!

... as much reading as I've done ... I've never read or heard that.  Uh oh.  Thanks for the heads up!!

I haven't had any IT Band pain, I've been having pain and soreness in other areas that I've never had problems with.  As usual, I think I've overdone -- this time with the rehabbing. 

I've also been strength training and it's made a big difference already.  The one-legged legg presses seem to work wonders on strenghtening my hips and glutes.

I've foam rolled so much, the usually IT Band rolling is no longer painful.  I think I'll stick with the stretching and seriously cut back on using the foam and the stick. 

Core work, specific stretches, and weights (leg press and using hip abductor machines).  Oh, and I also started doing Yoga.

Why is too much deep massage is not good?

I would imagine and guess it breaks down the muscle continuously and does not allow it to recover and heal.  Just a guess.

This is true.  I used the stick on the back of me knee, where there is little to no meat or muscles, and it caused some tendon soreness that I had not had prior.

Thanks to everyone who responded in this thread.  I have not foam rolled for three days straight and my leg feels hundred times better -- it actually feels about 95% back to normal!     As usual, I do thinks to excess and the extreme. 

From now on I will make sure to Foam Roller only every other day - at the most.  I will also only very lightly foam roll before a run, as it makes sense now that I don't want to break down and aggravate the IT Band too much right before I run ; rather simply and lightly loosen it up.